BiographyInga Frick graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz, received an MFA in painting from the University of Pennsylvania in 1985, and later earned a second MFA from the University of Maryland in digital media. Her paintings were included in the Corcoran Gallery of Art’s prestigious biannual survey of American painting in 1993. Around that time, she began to explore other media. While working at the University of Maryland, she collaborated with Gillian Brown on two major video installation projects. In 1999, they were awarded a fellowship from Harvard University, where they worked for a year on a technically and conceptually complex interactive video installation, Turnaround Time. In 2002, after two years of teaching at Stetson University in Florida, Frick returned home to Washington DC.
Frick’s work is held in collections including the San Francisco Museum of Art, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Gap Collection, the Artery Collection and others. It has been often reviewed in the Washington Post as well as the San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, Art in America, Art Papers, and other publications. It has been reproduced in books and catalogs, most recently in a scholarly German survey of new media art, Grundkurs Kunst 4: Aktion, Kinetik, Neue Medien, by Michael Klant. Frick has taught art at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of California at Santa Cruz and the University of Maryland, and she taught digital art at the Art Institute of Phoenix and Stetson University.
